Film Noir & Neo Noir News
NOIR CITY: Boston
NOIR CITY: Boston will return to its home at The Brattle, June 12-14, with an exciting program of crime and mystery films featuring … musicians. FNF board member and film historian Foster Hirsch will host the three-day event. Hirsch is the author of Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen and, most recently, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television.
NOIR CITY: Boston 2026 program details and ticketing information to come later in May on The Brattle’s website!
CONFIRMED 2026 NOIR CITY DATES
NOIR CITY: Boston: June 12-14
The Brattle, Cambridge, MA
NOIR CITY: Portland: Aug 21-23
Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
NOIR CITY: Chicago: Sep 4-10
Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
NOIR CITY: Detroit: Sep 18-20
Redford Theatre, Detroit, MI
NOIR CITY: D.C.: Oct 8-22
AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center
Silver Spring, MD
NOIR CITY: Philadelphia: Nov 13-15
Ambler Theater, Ambler, PA
TCMFF returns in the spring
EDDIE MULLER IN PERSON
The Turner Classic Movie Film Festival returns to Hollywood, April 30- May 3. This year’s festival will cover a wide range of programming themes with its central theme being The World Comes to Hollywood celebrating the artist behind and in front of the silver screen who came from foreign shores to create a lasting Hollywood legacy. All festival screenings include special introductions to provide context for each film. Specific details will be announced on the TCMFF website in the weeks and months ahead, including guest appearances by actors, actresses, directors, producers and other key figures. One presenter that we know will be there is TCM Noir Alley host and FNF president Eddie Muller.
Not surprisingly given the theme of The World Comes to Hollywood, quite a few film noirs, the genre perhaps most directly shaped by emigrees, have been announced already: Ace in the Hole (1951) written and directed by Polish/Austrian emigree Billy Wilder; Gaslight (1944) starring two European actors, French Charles Boyer and Swedish Ingrid Bergman; Out of the Past (1947) directed by Frenchman Jacques Tourner and shot by Italian born cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca; Phantom Lady (1944), directed by German emigree Robert Siodmak and produced by English woman Joan Harrison; and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) directed by Russian emigree Boris Ingster, written by Hungarian born Frank Partos, and starring German actor Peter Lorre.
Screenings will be held at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX, TCL Chinese 6 Theatres Multiplex, and The Hollywood Legion Theater at Post 43. Special events for passholders will take place at TCMFF’s headquarters at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Passes are now on sale at the TCMFF website. Films to be screened are posted there as confirmed.
Cocktails and Noir
FNF prez Eddie Muller's newest book, NOIR BAR: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir combines two of his greatest passions, film noir and cocktails.
In the words of the author, "Noir Bar offers a booze-based excursion through America's most popular film genre, pairing easy-to-master recipes with the kind of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that I like to include in my film intros and books." Some of the drinks are the ones being imbibed on screen and some are named after the films, the characters or the actors themselves. The recipes came from a variety of sources including Ernest Hemmingway and Sam Fuller. Some were even created by Eddie himself. Eddie also draws on his past as a bartender to coach you on the supplies and the techniques you will need to create these libations in your own home. The book is stylishly laid out and filled with movie stills, poster art, behind-the-scenes images, and cocktail photography. The book is available from Running Press.
Blu‑ray/DVD of FNF restoration available
Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto's El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is available from Flicker Alley in a deluxe Blu‑ray/DVD edition. A virtually unknown remake of Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller M, this 1953 Argentine noir is a female-centered take on the tale. + READ MORE
Two FNF Argentine restorations available on Blu‑ray/DVD
We are proud to announce the release of two FNF restorations as Blu‑ray/DVD combos from Flicker Alley: The Bitter Stems and The Beast Must Die, two classics of Argentine noir.. → READ MORE
Ask Eddie anything!
Did you know that The Film Noir Foundation regularly livestreams on our Facebook page in which Eddie Muller answers questions submitted by our e‑mail subscribers? All previous broadcasts are available on our YouTube broadcast archives page.
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The latest ASK EDDIE broadcast on Facebook on April 2 and on YouTube the following day.
Palm Springs Noir
WORLD PREMIERE OF FNF RESTORATION. The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, hosted and programmed by FNF board member Alan K. Rode, returns to the Palm Springs Cultural Center May 7-10. The festival opens Thursday, May 7, with the world premiere of the FNF's digital restoration of Allan Dwan’s Slightly Scarlet (1956). This technicolor noir, set in the world of political corruption, stars John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl and is based on James M. Cain’s Love’s Lovely Counterfeit. The film was shot by the legendary cinematographer John Alton. Vincent Pirozzi, Vice President of Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., will be the special guest for this screening. The opening night reception for all-access pass holders follows the film.
Based on the Blake Edwards' television series Peter Gunn, the new digital restoration of Gunn (1967) also has its premiere during the festival. Craig Stevens reprises his role as Gunn. Also making its Palm Springs debut is the digital restoration of Manhandled (1949) starring Dorothy Lamour and everyone’s favorite predatory noir villain, Dan Duryea.
Other highlights include Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) with special guest writer/producer Kirk Ellis who will be signing copies of his book They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws prior to the screening. Scott Eyman will be siging his book Joan Crawford – A Woman’s Face prior to a screening of the Crawford noir The Damned Don’t Cry (1950), directed by Vincent Sherman. Producer-actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, will be the guest for the extraordinary I Walked with a Zombie (1943) directed by Jacques Tourneur, produced by Val Lewton, and starring Frances Dee and Tom Conway.
Tickets, passes and the full schedule can be found on the festival website.
Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir
In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—FNF founder and Turner Classic Movies host—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text, photos, and ten new star profiles.
In Dark City Dames, acclaimed film historian Eddie Muller takes readers into the world of six women who made a lasting impression in this cinematic terrain—from veteran “bad girls” Audrey Totter, Marie Windsor, and Jane Greer to unexpected genre fixtures Evelyn Keyes, Coleen Gray, and Ann Savage. The book provides in-depth profiles of these formidable women during the height of their careers, circa 1950, as they balanced love and career, struggled against typecasting, and sought fulfillment in a ruthless business. Their personal stories—teeming with larger-than-life characters like Howard Hughes, Louis B. Mayer, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, and John Huston—offer a fascinating counterpoint to their movies. Then, Dark City Dames revisits each woman fifty years later to witness their hard-won—and triumphant—survival. On every page their own voices ring through, reflecting on their lives with as much passion, pain, intelligence, energy, and humor as any movie script. Muller conducted far-ranging interviews with the original six women profiled in Dark City Dames, in the process becoming a friend and confidante to each.
In this revised and expanded edition, he updates their stories and shares illuminating, never-before-told memories of his time with them. This edition also includes compelling new profiles of ten additional women who left an indelible mark on film noir, including Joan Bennett, Gail Russell, Rhonda Fleming, and Claire Trevor—all packaged in a stunning redesign that offers the ultimate look at performers who helped define a still-resonant and inspiring epoch of Hollywood history.
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Czar of Noir's Dark City available
The revised and expanded edition of FNF prez and Noir Alley host Eddie Muller's Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir is now available for purchase from the TCM Shop or your favorite bookseller. + READ MORE
Newest FNF restoration available
Preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and now beautifully restored through the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich, the film is brilliantly directed by Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero. ORDER YOUR COPY
Says FNF founder Eddie Muller about this recent restoration, “It is a revelation to experience the work of an all-American author, in Spanish, and rendered as well – or perhaps better – than any Hollywood adaptation of his work.” + READ MORE
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